HALIFAX – The mother of the first Canadian woman to be killed in Afghanistan in a combat role says she feels her daughter would be proud to have a coast guard vessel named after her.
Sally Goddard of Charlottetown attended a Halifax ceremony Wednesday marking the official acceptance of the Captain Goddard into the coast guard’s fleet.
She says her daughter would have seen it as an honour for all of the Canadian Forces personnel who were killed during the conflict.
The artillery officer was killed in a Taliban ambush during a battle in the Panjwaii district on May 17, 2006.
The vessel was launched on May 17 this year, eight years after Nichola Goddard’s death and on the birthday of her father.
Sally Goddard says it’s moving for her to imagine the ship going about its duties patrolling the coasts, carrying out the goal of serving and protecting Canadians that her daughter believed in.
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